Web Directory

» A Bridge Collapse in Portugal Kills up to 70 People
   Ponte de Ferro Bridge, 2001. Links to news articles about the collapse (owing to illegal sand extraction) of a concrete bridge over the Douro River in Portugal.
   http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/Portugal_Bridge/

» Awful Plunge
   Newspaper articles from the Victoria Colonist, 1896, detailing the collapse of the Point Ellice bridge on 26 May 1896.
   http://mypage.direct.ca/r/robinl/awfulplunge.html

» Br 169 Lancaster and Carlisle Line
   Glanrhyd Bridge, 1987. Collapse of steel/masonry rail bridge in Wales, owing to scour. Summary of background and later preventative work to other bridge in Penrith, England, with map, photographs and drawings.
   http://www.dhaynes.freeserve.co.uk/fmrc/06_br169lc/06_br169lc.htm

» California's Temporary Freeway Bridge
   Arroyo Pasajero Twin Bridges, 1995. Collapse of motor bridge because of foundation scour. Temporarily replaced by innovative bridge made from surplus railroad flatcars.
   http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/fall95/p95a2.htm

» Learning from Failure: Engineering Disasters
   Statistics on the cause of engineering failures and the ethics thereof.
   http://www.matscieng.sunysb.edu/disaster/

» Liquefaction
   Discussion of liquefaction caused by earthquakes and its effects on roads and bridges. Photographs of Watsonville brige in California, USA.
   http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~es10/fieldtripEarthQ/Damage1.html

» Maccabiah Bridge Collapse Blame Falls Far and Wide
   Collapse of foot bridge in Jerusalem, 1997. News article detailing what went wrong.
   http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/6211/maccabiah-bridge-collapse-blame-falls-far-and-wide/

» Mark Ketchum's Bridge Collapse Page
   Pictures and descriptions of a few collapsed bridges, such as the Tacoma Narrows and the Koror-Babeldaob bridge.
   http://www.ketchum.org/bridgecollapse.html

» Merrillan Bridge Collapse
   Collapse of a concrete rail bridge over a creek in Wisconsin, 1968. Includes two large amateur photographs of the wreckage.
   http://www.greenbayroute.com/1968merrillanwreck.htm

» Point Ellice Bridge Disaster
   Short description of the collapse of wooden bridge on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 1896, under weight of tramway car.
   http://collections.ic.gc.ca/peh/tour/gartour/bridge.htm

» Rainbow Bridge Collapse, 1938
   Photograph, from Vintageviews of New York, of this iron bridge after its collapse.
   http://vintageviews.org/vv-ny/Ko/cards/nf013.html

» Rush Street Bridges
   The Encyclopedia of Chicago provides an illustrated article on the collapse of an iron bridge in Chicago in 1863, and on the fate of other bridges built subsequently.
   http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300041.html

» Speedway Bridge at North Carolina, USA
   Lowe's speedway bridge collapse, 2000. Links to news articles about the collapse, owing to incorrect application of materials, of a concrete pedestrian walkway spanning a four-lane highway in North Carolina, USA.
   http://icivilengineer.com/Failure_Watch/2000_Speedway/

» The Fall of a Bridge at Cornwall, Ontario.
   Long Sault Rapids Bridge, 1898. Collapse of steel framed rail bridge. Description of events and photographs.
   http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/brcorn.Html

» The Millennium Bridge
   Discusses the foot bridge in London and the swaying that occurred in 2000 due to synchronous lateral excitation of steel cable foot bridge. Includes engineers drawings, public questions answered, solutions proposed, and photographs.
   http://www.arup.com/millenniumbridge/

» Walnut Street Bridge (Harrisburg)
   Information from Wikipedia on the collapse of a steel framed bridge in Pennsylvania in 1996, owing to scour and ice damage.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Street_Bridge_(Harrisburg)

» Wood Bridge Failure Analysis
   Analyses of failed private wooden bridges by Charles C Roberts, with photographs.
   http://croberts.com/bridge.htm